Honeyville, President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Dear Brother: Your letter of the 21st instant received and in reply I will say, I was suprised to receive notice of a mission. I will have to quit teaching school about three week or a month before my time is up. if I go on the 18th If you could arrange matters to let me go about one month later I would be much better prepared to start If you cannot I will be ready to go

President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother: I greatly fear that my letter of the 8th to you, has con- veyed a wrong impression in relation to my arrangement with the Southern Pacific Company. Such at least, Brother Reynolds letter of the 12th seems to indicate. I was aware before I came here that some trouble had existed between the Company and the Brethren at Salt Lake City about the transportation of our Elders over their Road. When I was introduced by President Shurtliff to Mr J. C. Stubbs he refered to that difficulty and invited me to an interview for the purpose of talking it over; and if possable bring about a better understanding on the subject. When I went to that interviwew I asked no favors; I promised nothing. I went with the determinat- ion to secure the best conditions possable for all our Elders mov- ing from place to place throughout the State or traveling to and from Ogden. I stated that all we asked for all our Elders was the s same priveileges freely accorded to all other ministers of all ot- her donominations—the Clergymans half-fare-permit. But in relation to my self, having been appointed President of this Mission it was necessary that I should travel all over the State, and to facilitat^e^ my movements and enable me tovisitevery town and city through^ou^t the State and thus open up new fields to preach the Gospel and by so doing be enabled to place many more of our Elders in the Missionary service, a free annual pass would be of great benifit to the work in which I was engaged, and would result in greatly increased tra- vel of our Elders over their Road. That all these Elders had to come from Utah ^,I said^ "they can come over your raoad from Ogden, they can go the other way, I have got a man to send home to morrow mor- ning, I can send him the other way" Mr Stubbs and Mr Donalson wh^o^ was with him then refered to the unpleasantness that occured some time ago, evidently with some feeling, and appearantly with deep regret; stating that such occurances must be avoided in the fut- ure: that they would issue the half-fare-permits to such as were e entitled to them who applied directly through me; this they requir- ed for their protection and to this I agreed. I had suggested that if they treated me and my fellow laborers with consideration and courtesy it would have the effect of removing the unpleasantnesses of the past and would doubtless secure the good will of the Pre- sidency at S. L. C. Mr Stubbs then said he would recomend to his c committee that the pass be issued for six months. It was expressly understood, that all Elders, wheather they were returning home from this, or from any of the Iland Missions, desiring to obtain the half-fare-permit, must apply for it through me; this was the only condition made. I said nothing that could in any way bind the